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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely to become "stir-simple," a malignant disease of the mind brought by resignation to the monotony of institutionalization. Now, time, considered abstractly, is nothing. Man is the only animal who seems to be cognizant of it, and even then only finds it a means of measuring the lapse between the incidents which occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...parting shot of the Crimson's broadside at Mr. Apted is suicidal. It suggests that Mr. Apted's successor, in the event that the Crimson editorial should stir authorities to choose a new head of College Police, should sit on the Administrative Board with Dean Hanford, instead of working as an intermediary between the Dean and students, as he now does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/27/1935 | See Source »

...persons of Arthur Rotche '38, who was undefeated in his first-year of collegiate competition, and John Duane '38 finalist in the Golden Gloves boxing matches at Chicago, sponsored by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Richard F. Baum '37, undefeated during his Freshman year, is back again to stir things up in the 155-pound class with A. H. Corbett '37, whose injured hands last season forced him out of the running, but who now has a clean bill of health from the doctor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL BOXING REGULARS AMONG 125 REPORTING | 11/26/1935 | See Source »

...there was the immediate prospect that the terrifying waves which were dashing against the sides of the tank might be shortly stilled. Lane markers, similar to those used in the Intercollegiate here last year, are calculated to subdue the mightiest billow that the most energetic candidate could hope to stir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

...Civil War that the Liberals in Canada and the Democrats in the U. S.- both historically the parties of free trade and low tariff-were simultaneously in power. Reciprocal treaties, such as the U. S. has made with Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Sweden and Belgium, have done little to stir U. S. blood. But Canada normally sells nearly half her exports to the U. S., buys more than half her imports from the U. S. She does more trade with the U. S. than the whole of South America, as much as the whole of Asia. In theory, tariff trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pleasant Thing | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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